Registan

The Registan become the coronary heart of the historic city of Samarkand of the Timurid dynasty, now in Uzbekistan. The name Registan method "Sandy location" or "wilderness" in Persian. The Registan changed into a public rectangular, wherein people accumulated to pay attention royal proclamations, heralded with the aid of blasts on substantial copper pipes referred to as dzharchis - and an area of public executions. It is framed by means of 3 madrasahs of distinct Islamic architecture.

The 3 madrasahs of the Registan are: the Ulugh Beg Madrasah, the Tilya-Kori Madrasah and the Sher-Dor Madrasah.Madrasah is an Arabic term meaning faculty. Ten years later the Tilya-Kori Madrasah changed into constructed. It become no longer most effective a residential university for college kids, however additionally played the function of grand masjid. It has a 1-storied important facade and a tremendous courtyard fringed via dormitory cells, with 4 galleries along the axes. The mosque building is located in the western section of the courtyard. The major corridor of the mosque is amply gilded.